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By adamg - 11/16/23 - 2:22 pm

City housing officials and the local architects' association are asking builders what it would take for them to put up new housing "inspired by triple deckers" on two city-owned vacant lots on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester and River Street in Mattapan. Read more.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 1:53 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court today overturned a man's first-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of Dantley Leonard as Leonard was helping a friend move his girlfriend move into an apartment on Ames Street in Dorchester's Franklin Field development on Nov. 12, 2016. Read more.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 1:02 pm

A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the all-electric space hoarder in the municipal parking lot on Belden Square in Uphams Corner in Dorchester: Read more.

By adamg - 11/14/23 - 2:50 pm
Expanded convent next to old church

Rendering by Context, showing expanded convent building next to old church.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today deferred a vote on a developer's proposal to turn the former St. Matthew convent, 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester, into 14 condos - two of them affordable - to give the developer and neighbors a couple more months to try to reach agreement on the size of the project, in particular, its roof. Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/23 - 9:47 am
A line of leaves

A distressed citizen files a 311 complaint about pointless leaf blowing at Savin Hill Park in Dorchester: Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/23 - 9:29 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports that, in an unusual move, the new owner of a parcel on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester that has long been home to a plumbing-supply business plans to build a new plumbing warehouse there, rather than try to put in apartments or condos.

1334 Dorchester Ave. filings.

By adamg - 11/8/23 - 12:25 pm
Fake gun

But was his bowtie really a camera?

Transit and Boston Police report officers responded to a 16 bus Columbia Road near Edward Everett Square for a report of a man who "threatened passengers" with a gun, around 11 a.m. on Monday: Read more.

By adamg - 11/7/23 - 2:14 pm

Herbert "HB" Small, 32, a one-time member of the infamous Columbia Point Dawgs - along with his brothers and father - now faces new federal charges after he allegedly sold guns and crack earlier this year to a buyer who turned out to be working undercover for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Read more.

By adamg - 11/7/23 - 9:08 am

Transit Matters runs the numbers and finds that two-week shutdown of the Red Line's Ashmont branch and the Mattapan Line seems to have worked: The trains are back to their 2018 trip times.

By adamg - 11/2/23 - 11:20 pm

Boston Police arrested two men this week on charges they shot Princess Charles to death on Greenock Street in Dorchester around 5:25 a.m. on Sept. 9. Read more.

By adamg - 10/30/23 - 2:31 pm
Phil Eng rides a new Red Line car

Happy days are here again, rider tells MBTA's Phil Eng.

The T reports the 16-day shutdown of the two lines worked, at least so far: All 38 slow zones on the Mattapan Line and the Red Line's Ashmont branch have become normal zones again.

By adamg - 10/25/23 - 9:19 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Lynn man on eight counts of armed assault with intent to murder for an incident that left eight people, including an 11-year-old, shot as the J'ouvert parade was going by half a block away on Aug. 26. Read more.

By adamg - 10/25/23 - 11:47 am

Update: Board voted to grant a liquor license, should one be found at City Hall.

Victoria's Diner, which has been slinging hash at 1024 Massachusetts Ave. in Newmarket Square since 1949, has a new owner who says he plans to keep things mainly the way they are, just upgraded a bit and with 24-hour service every day and, if he can get it, a license to serve liquor until 1 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/25/23 - 10:07 am
Bus painted to look like a train, sort of

Martin Owens noticed this unusual bus at Ashmont this morning doing shuttle duty as part of the MBTA's Mattapan/Red Line shuttle service.

By adamg - 10/22/23 - 12:56 pm
Lucio Tomar

A man who has nine convictions for exposing himself dating to 2009 was arraigned last week on a charge that he was driving around Dorchester in a BMW, pulling up to women standing on the street and then rolling down a window so they could watch him masturbate, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 10/20/23 - 12:12 pm
Hawk vs. chicken

Update: Case closed, Animal Control reports "The chicken was taken to the shelter."

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a life-or-death situation at Nevada Street and Wilmington Avenue in Dorchester this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 10/19/23 - 12:50 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal this week rejected a Wrentham Street resident's request to build a second, house behind hers, with members saying they objected to a curb cut more than twice as large as normally allowed and a long driveway wide enough that firetrucks could pull in for a fire and then turn around without having to navigate the narrow street. Read more.

By adamg - 10/19/23 - 9:12 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the opening of the Dorchester Food Coop, 195 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester.

The city's first food coop since Harvest closed in Jamaica Plain in 2018.

By Sasha Patkin - 10/18/23 - 4:08 pm
The Damned Guy, by Clarence Leroy Hinds

"The Damned Guy," by Clarence Leroy Hinds.

I was gazing upon a Michelangelo. Except, it wasn't a Michelangelo. It was an artist's painstakingly recreated version of "The Damned Man," a figure in The Last Judgement fresco on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel who realizes he has been condemned to spend eternity in Hell. The oil on canvas before me, titled "The Damned Guy," was painted by Clarence Leroy Hinds and hangs in The Museum of Bad Art. A caption on the wall nearby reads: "The artist sought to improve upon Michelangelo's masterpiece by clothing him in a bright green Speedo, and adding a disjointed eyeball over his left shoulder spewing what appears to be toxic slime." Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/23 - 3:37 pm

Zackery Grandy, 25, today pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the strangulation death of his mother, Gisel Thomas, in their apartment on Columbia Road in Dorchester on Feb. 26, 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

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